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 AQUAE. vatenaialqgoos in their medical properties to those «f the AIlHiJa, and situated near Momentum: they we clearfj the raiae now called JBagni di GroUa MaroBo aboot 3 miles N. of Mentana, the ancient Noncntam. (Nibby, XHtUami di Roma, vol. ii. ^ J*^) [E. H. B.] AQCAE LESITA'NAE. [Lesa.T AQl'AK MATTIACAE or PONTES MATTI- JCl i wMtering place with hot springs, in the amtrr of the Mattiaci, that is, the district be- tweea the Maine aod the I^hn. (Plm. xxxi. 17; Amm. Marcell. xxix . 4.) The pbice is genenOly Wievfd to be the same as the modern iriM&arfen, &*OTO«d. (See Dahl in the Annalen des Vereins fiw X anautMc ke JkUerthumskunde^ vol. i. part 2, ^ 27. *«lO [L. S.] AQUAE NEAPOLITA'NAE. [Neapoijs.J A(H.'AE NERI. So the name is written in the Thndobian Table; for irhic-h we omght probably to vhte At^oae Xerae, aa £>* Anville suggests. It ap- pe«s to correspond to Aeraa, which Gregory of T<nis caDs Vicus Kereensis. NerU is in the de- pKtment ef AUier. [G. L.] AQUAE Nl^SlNEII, is designated in the Thco- doRsa Table by the square fi^^ure or building which icdkatea mineral waters [Aquab Bormonis], and if placed OD the road hetw^en Decetia {Bicue) and Afifnstodunun (^tcfim^ This identifies the place vith Bomrhotn-^Anct, where there are Boman con- ttwtions. [G. L.] AQUAE PA'SSERIS, one of the numerous places k Etniria frequc^ited for its warm baths, which ap- pear to bare been in £;reat Togne in the time of Mar- tial (n 42. 6). It is placed by the Tab. Peut. on the road from VoUinii to Rome, between the former citT aod Foram Cassdi : and was probably situated at a spud now called Sacuceo^ about 5 miles N. of Vi- lerie^whiere there is a lax^ assemblage of ruins, «i Bonan date, and aome of them certainly baths, vhile the irhole neighbourhood aboonds in thermal spricga. (Clnver. JtaL p. 561 ; Dennis's Etruria, v«LL pp.202. 2110 Aa iDtcriptioa published by Orioli (^Ann, d. Inst* vi. i. pL 174 — 179) writes the name Aquae Pas- acaiAif AK. [E. H. B.] AQUAE PATAVI'NAE. [Apoki Fows.] AQUAE POPIXLO'NIAE. [Populonium-] AQUAE BE'GIAE (JETaminom Trussa, or the fin. on the xirer Mergaleel^ S. of Trtaza^ Shaw), a place of eoDBadenble importanoe, near the centre «f Byzaoena, co the high road leading SW. fhim (/Ian. AnL pp. 47, 53, 54, 55, 56 ; NotU, Eed. Afr,) [P. &] AQUAE SEGESTA'NAE. [Segesta.] AQUAE SEGESTE, a place denoted in the Peu- tjnccr Table as the site of mineral waters. D'An- ▼Lle (.VoCiee, &c) places it at Ferrieret, which Uea nearly in a direct line between OrJMuwand Sffw, CO wlurfa route it was, according to the Table. Thete are chafybeate aprings at Ferrieru, But the distaooes in the Table do not agree with the aitnal diwtaiyea, unless we change zxii., the distance Vel^veen Fines, the first station finm OrMans (Gme^ AesiX and Aquae Segesta, into zv. The distance of z3qL from Aquae Segesta to Sem (Agedincnm) alaii re quii ea to be reduced to xv., on the supposition «f /arrwres being the true site. Ukert and others place Aquae Segesta at FontamebieaUj which seems lx» lie too &r oat of the direct road between Orleans [G. L.] AQUAE. 169 AQUAE SEGETE, the name of a place in the Theodoeian Table, which may possibly be corrupt. It is designated as the site of mineral waters, and in the neighbourhood of Forum Segusianorum, or ^etir, in the department of Haute Loire. The exact site of the place does not appear to be certain. D'Anville fixes it at Jtannntn, on the right bank of- the Loire: others place it near MorUbrison, [G. L.l AQUAE SELINU'NTLAE. [Seunus.] AQUAE SE'XTLAE {Aix), in the department of Bouches du RMne, is 18 Roman miles north of Massilia {Marseille), In b. c. 122, the proconsul C. Sextins Calvinns, having defeated the Salyes or Saluvii, founded in their territory the Boman colony of Aquae Sextiae, so called from the name of the Bo- man general, and the springs, both hot and cold, which he found there. (Liv. Ep. lib. 61; Veil. i. 15.) These hot springs are mentioned by Strabo (pp. 178, 180: Tck dtpfia SSara t^ 2c{T(a)and by other ancient writers. Strabo observes that it was said that some of the hot springs had become cold. The temperature of the hot springs is now only a moderate warmth. In the neighbourhood of Aix was fought, B.C. 102, the great battle, in which the Boman consul C. Me- nus defeated the Cimbri and Teutones with immense shiughter. (Plut. Mar. c. 18; Florus, iii. 3.) Plutarch states that the people of Massilia made fences for their vineyards with the bones of the bar- barians, and that the soil, which was drenched with the blood of thousands, produced an unusual crop the following year. D'Anville observes that the battle field is supposed to have been near the Larj about four leagues above Aix; but Fauris de St. Vincent (quotol by Forbiger) fixes the site of the battle at Meiragues^ two leagues from Marseille, which was call^ in the middle ages Campus de Marianicis. Fragments of swords and spears, and bones, are still found on tliis spot. There are Bonum remains at .^ia;; and its iden- tity with Aquae Sextiae appears from the ancient Itineraries and an inscription, which shows it to have been a Boman colony, with the title Julia. Strabo's words, indeed, show that it was a Boman colony from the first. Yet Fliny (iii. 4) places " Aquae Sextiae Salluviorum " among the Oppida Latina of Gallia Narbonensis, or those which liAd the Jus Latium; in which he is certainly mistaken. Ftolemaeus also calls it a colonia. [G. L.] AQUAE SICCAE, a name which the Anton. Itin. places between Calagorris and Veroosole, on the road from Aquae Tarbellicae to Toloea. The site is uncertain. If Seiches near Toulouse be the pkce, the distances in the Itinerary require correction. (D'Anville, Notice.) Walckenacr calls the place Ayguas-Sec. [G. L.] AQUAE SnOJESSA'NAE. [Sinuessa.] AQUAJB ^LIS (Bath), in Britain, mentioned under this name in the ItineraHum Jlntonina, in Ptolemy (ii. 3. § 28), as •T8oto dtpfid. [R- G. L.] AQUAE STATIELLAE {'Axo^ai XrarUWat, ' Strab.), a city of Liguria, situated on the N. side of the Apennines in the vsJley of the Bormida: now called Aoftd. Its name sufficiently indicates that it owed its origin to the mineral springs which wero found there, and Pliny notices it (xxxi. 2) as one of the most remarkable instances where this droum- stance had given rise to a considerable town. It is probable that it did not become a place of any im- portance until afrer the Boman conquest of Liguria, nor do we find any actual mention of it under the
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